Author | Romain Gary |
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Original title | Les Racines du ciel |
Translator | Jonathan Griffin |
Language | French |
Set in | French Equatorial Africa, 1955 |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 5 October 1956 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1958 |
Pages | 510 |
843.9 |
The Roots of Heaven (French: Les Racines du ciel) is a 1956 novel by the Lithuanian-born French writer and World War II aviator, Romain Gary (born Roman Kacew). It received the Prix Goncourt for fiction. It was translated into English in 1957.[1]